US State Department Confiscates Passport of Former Marine en Route to Russia

But guess what?

The State Department swooped in and snagged his passport, leaving him grounded.

Doesn’t sound legal at all.

Scott’s feeling annoyed, understandably so.

He’s spent time serving in the Marines and inspecting weapons for the UN, not to mention his gig as an RT contributor.

But for now, it looks like his meeting is Russia will have to wait.

🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺 Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter was supposed to meet me in Russia tomorrow to speak at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, but the Biden State Department just BLOCKED him from traveling & seized his passport.

This is CRIMINAL @POTUS! pic.twitter.com/BhcKXb7KwS

— Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) June 3, 2024

Nothing to see here.

Just the Biden Admin seizing someone’s passport and blocking him from traveling.

Scott Ritter was removed from a plane in the USA, preventing him from flying to Russia for SPIEF 2024.

“The US government removed me from the flight and confiscated my passport. This time I am not flying to any Russia. The State Department seized my passport. So no, I'm not… pic.twitter.com/4J1PDWw8O1

— S p r i n t e r F a m i l y (@SprinterFamily) June 3, 2024

ALERT: Scott Ritter's passport was just SEIZED by the US State Dept after he boarded a commercial plane to fly to a conference in St. Petersburg. Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector, currently writes for RT and is very vocal in his criticism of the US State Department and the…

— HealthRanger (@HealthRanger) June 3, 2024

RT reports:

The US State Department has seized the passport of former Marine and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, he told RT on Monday.

Ritter was on his way to Russia for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) when he was pulled off the plane and had his documents confiscated.

“I was boarding the flight. Three [police] officers pulled me aside. They took my passport. When asked why, they said ‘orders of the State Department’. They had no further information for me,” Ritter told RT. “They pulled my bags off the plane, then escorted me out of the airport. They kept my passport.”

“Was this done in accordance with the First Amendment, or the Fourth,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, commenting on the news. The first amendment to the US constitution protects freedom of speech, press and assembly, while the fourth bars the government from “unreasonable searches and seizures.”

Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, who later served as the US and UN weapons inspector in Iraq.

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